{"id":409430,"date":"2026-08-18T02:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409430\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:54:32","slug":"data-center-moratorium-petition-heads-to-lubbock-city-council-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409430\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center moratorium petition heads to Lubbock City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A petition aiming to pause data center development in Lubbock will now go before city council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The effort was guided by Stephen Sanders, founder of Citizens of Lubbock Against Data Centers. He said enough signatures have been validated by the city secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">About 3,000 people backed the 18-month moratorium on hyperscale data center development in the city limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The next regular meeting is next Tuesday, the 25th. If council members vote the measure down, it could head to voters in November.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A petition aiming to pause data center development in Lubbock will now go before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5421,143073,319,66,168,13589,170,169,54748],"class_list":["post-409430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-data-center","tag-data-center-moratorium","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-petition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}